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1874–1939
Otto Berg
Discovered rhenium in 1925.
Element
75ReRhenium
1925
In 1925 Walter Noddack, Ida Tacke (later Noddack) and Otto Berg, in Berlin, found element 75 as an impurity in minerals such as gadolinite. It was the last stable element found in nature, and they named it rhenium, after the Rhine.
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